Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classified the future evils as economic political, social and moral. He admitted that the present economic objections did not justify the restrictive policy, but prophesied that the future was full of danger of economic nature. The political objections to the Chinese were based on their ignorance of our political system, and their unwillingness to participate...
...Davis, L. S., replied in the affirmative. His main points were social and moral, - the danger of a dense population, the tendency to lower the American standard of living. He claimed that the Chinese are slaves, and untrustworthy. Politically they are to be feared as they have a separate government...
...this means far the best results can be obtained. Several of the excluded topics are such as any student can answer without a moments trouble, and therefore their exclusion will not hamper the exercise of his argumentative faculties. Such a question as, "Ought a University to attempt the moral guidance of its students?" is obviously too easy for consideration, while the question "Is Charity harmful?" is promptly and decidedly answered by those men who have contributed various sums towards getting a worthy engineer's "valuable surveying instruments" out of pawn. Lines of argument in the discussion of "What...
...history we may learn at least three lessons: First, history teaches us the sole secret of moral power. By faith St. Paul, St. Anthony, Gregory VII, and Luther shook the world. Secondly, history teaches us that the work of the world's heroes is never permanent in its results. The oil in a lamp, if it is always to burn, must often be replenished. If a work pauses, degradation ensues. Christianity as a human philosophy is lacking. Only as a divine message, as a living energy, can it be complete and truly successful. Thirdly, history teaches that the failures...
...that boarding house keepers are obliged to take out a license from the city for so being, it is presumed that the faculty exerted their power through having the right to say in what places students shall lodge, or what is equivalent, shall not lodge. In this way great moral suasion can be used, and as was the case Monday night, with a good effect. Many a freshman has reason to thank the faculty for their sudden, though genuine interest in his welfare...